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Naac
Potentially interesting, but it was hard to read. The author needs to do a thorough proofread of this post, and potentially some editing.
[dead] eigengrau5150
They should get some stats on the probability of dying of dysentery before reaching one's destination, too.
iso1210
And finish it - the journey so far seems to be from the yard to the road!
blamazon
This post is a teaser that ends with a call to action to buy their book about stagecoaches.
iso1210
Not very good teaser, no "the story continues in my book..."

And if this is the standard of the book there's big problems

hnzix
The book is like that too. Actually a fantastic read and a highly recommended portal into the dawn of modernity, but jeez it could use some editing.
irrational
Very interesting. But, they meant “genteel” class and not “gentile” class, right?

Edit: I’m finding so many grammatical errors in this piece (“Coaches now were now better sprung”) that spelling errors are hardly surprising.

[dead] LiquidSky
>Very, very few of the unaccompanied females will be of the gentile class.

Clearly you should expect unaccompanied females on an 1816 stagecoach journey to be Jewish.

mikestew
Yeah, I had a clever rejoinder having something to do with Jewish immigration rates in 1816...and then I read the rest of the article and realized that it was probably one of the less egregious errors in TFA.

It's an interesting article, no doubt, but be prepared to reread a few sentences. It's almost as annoying as the large amount of dns-prefetch going on to make sure those trackers have their names resolved upfront. :-)

zwieback
you yourself may have had a purl – a warming mixture of beer, gin, nutmeg and sugar before the journey

trying to imagine how that tastes

ch4s3
Bad. Probably really bad. I mean maybe a strong blonde ale, a floral gin, and you’d be ok, but still.
axiosgunnar
imagine the smell of people’s mouths inside the stagecoach
poulsbohemian
When I was an exchange student in Germany many years ago, my host mother gave me something very similar to this as a homespun cure for the common cold.
bellyfullofbac
On the topic of tickets, I've kept a plane ticket from the year 2000, and it's a bit amazing that a decade or so after needing to go a travel agency and getting a booklet (plane tickets back then had a page for each leg, usually a back cover and maybe a front cover), I can just use my phone to go to the airline's website (or a price comparison site), buy a ticket, do online check-in, and just load up the barcode to board the plane...
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[dead] google8gxxx
Not nowadays, you need pages of printed crap for many long haul, online checkin is disabled for nearly all airlines or does a 'collect boarding pass at checkin' - i.e. the same as normal checkin, and you are checked again and again.. I flew the other day from Europe to Sri Lanka, it was certainly easier in 2000. The problem is it seems this fear is eternal, the section of society that fear (sf libs) will keep this charade going - can i see proof of your fifth booster please, pcr test within 72 hrs even though you spent last two evening in nightclubs unmasked, 14 day travel histoey, covid specific insurance, and so on and so on
op00to
No one likes your bullshit. Stop posting this crap. At least have the courage to use your primary login and not a throwaway account.